Eve: My dad’s fame brings out worst in people

Bono’s youngest daughter, Eve Hewson, has told how her father’s huge fame can bring out the worst in people when they find out her connection to the global superstar.

The 21-year-old actress, who is studying acting in New York City University, said she is rarely recognised as she was always kept out of the limelight by her parents.

But the drama student, who lives with her Irish best friend in America, told Flaunt magazine she can instantly recognise the people who want to be friends with her in college because of her father.

She said: “It’s made it, in some ways, easier to find friends because it brings out certain bad things in people. Then you can see easier. Well you can smell the desperation in people.”

For most of her life she has been kept out of the limelight by her parents, but her roles in a string of high-profile films are turning the dark-haired beauty into a budding star.

But she said her father’s status as the frontman of one of the world’s best-known bands rarely encroached on her happy, sheltered childhood in southside Dublin.

She said: “Obviously every now and then someone would start singing a U2 song at a party I was at but aside from it’s not really about who you are, what you have.”

Her performance alongside acting legend Sean Penn in the film, This Must Be The Place, has already caused a buzz around the young star.

She plays the surrogate daughter to Penn’s character who is a depressed rockstar living outside Dublin but she insists he is not based on the U2 singer.

But she said she wasn’t recognised much while making the film.

She said in the interview: “Nobody really cares about me. There are other famous actors on set that are more fascinating.”

The actress, who has an older sister Jordan, 23, and two younger brothers Elijah, 14, and John Abraham, 11, has recently finished work the upcoming movie Blood Ties, shot in New York over the summer.

It stars a string of Hollywood stars, including Clive Owen, Billy Crudup, James Caan and Marion Cotillard.

The young actress said she is very focused on choosing the right roles at this stage of her career and lists edgy star Juliette Lewis and Evan Rachel Woods as big influences.

She said: “I think you have to be very forward about what you want. You have to be confident that you have a vision and that you want to play different sides of yourself.

“I think the crazier and weirder you are you will be able to get there.

“You’ve got to dig deep and find the crazy in you.”